Continental 18th Century Oil on Canvas Painting

A wonderfully executed Continental 19th Century oil on canvas painting. The painting is set within its original giltwood frame with a most elegant mottled, beaded and twisted rope de...

A wonderfully executed Continental 19th Century oil on canvas painting. The painting is set within its original giltwood frame with a most elegant mottled, beaded and twisted rope de...

A beautiful and most charming pair of French 18th century oil on canvas paintings. Each most decorative and colorful cloud shaped painting disp...

An extremely charming Italian 18th century Neo-Classical oil on canvas painting. The circular painting retains its original giltwood frame with a beautiful mottled designs and finely...

This oil on canvas painting is a striking depiction of a dramatic maritime scene, common in late 18th-century artwork, when maritime subjects were quite popular. The use of dark colo...

Antique French painting from 18th century. Oil painting on canvas, depicting landscape with ruins and characters of good pictorial quality. Wood and plaster frame of the 20th century...

Venetian school, 18th century Study with the head of a cherub Measures: Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 41 cm - with frame 54.5 x 49.5 cm The present qualifies as a study or preparatory sketch by virtue of the structural and figural layout; by reason of formal and substantial evidence, it can be traced back to the mature neo-Venetian style, which in the eighteenth century had begun to produce figurations of extreme typological pathetism and formal expressionism. The contemporary painting experience of Tiepolo commanded the Venetian art scene, once the lesson of Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666) was overruled. The delicate putto head offered here, in which a cherub is recognizable due to the happy iconographic solution of the wings placed under the angel's face, is outlined with a vigorous vitalism. A foreshortened point of view illuminates his face in a grazing way, probing his features with strong shadows and with a youthful blush that orange his cheeks. The veristic perfection with which the artist arranges the semblant is of marvelous expressiveness. The eyes are swollen with intensity, and together with the general setting of the head they denounce a conscious reflection on the physiognomy, peculiar within the emerging context of Venetian painting. The painting in question is affected by the large-scale productions, both monumental and perspective, at the time in vogue in the territory of the Serenissima. Conceived through a vision from below, the portrait reveals from the Venetian Rococo that particular predilection for the open and clear, airy ways, denounced in the first instance by Tiepolo. The conscious detachment from the Cortona-style decorativism and from the repeated layout solutions then in vogue allow us to approach the present to the production of Francesco Fontebasso...

This is a truly exceptional 18th century religious oil on canvas. It depicts 'The Ecstasy of Teresa' and depicts St Teresa having a profound religious experience. Often regarded as a...